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SUMMARY:Varnish -- programming like it is 2008 - Poul-Henning Kamp (http:/
 /people.freebsd.org/~phk/)
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CONTACT:Eiko Yoneki
DESCRIPTION:"A computer consists of a CPU\, RAM\, DISK and I/O" has done m
 ore damage to computer performance than any 3D eye-candy will ever do. \n\
 nRecent (ie: 1980) advances in hardware and operating systems are largely 
 ignored in education of programmers\, leading to inefficient and stupid pr
 ogramming practices\, which neither faster hardware nor better operating s
 ystems can do much about.\n\nUsing the Varnish HTTP accellerator he wrote 
 as an example\, a hard-core kernel programmer will try to show how an appl
 ication\, properly designed for modern hardware and operating systems\, ca
 n be 10 times faster than the competition\, and still not use more than a 
 fraction of the hardware resources.\n\nBio: Poul-Henning Kamp has been pro
 gramming computers since the early eighties. From microcontrollers to main
 frames\, from temperature control in greenhouses to air traffic control\, 
 he has the T-shirts to prove it. His has avoided the 15minutes of fame by 
 living in Denmark and totally missing the dot-com bubble. His main claim i
 s his 15 years of work on the FreeBSD system and kernel\, from 	where his 
 code has a tendency to spill over into both other operating systems and ap
 plications\, so even if you do not run FreeBSD\, the chances of you not ru
 nning his code are marginal. Unconstrained by formal education and good up
 bringing he has opinions about just about everything\, and the code to bac
 k most of the opinons up.\n\n
LOCATION:FW11\, Computer Laboratory\, William Gates Builiding
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